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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-07-15
zuG,s CALAMITY.

Seventy Persons Missing and $3.50, 600
LOst-PecuIiar Features of the Land
slides.
BERNE, July S.-The disaster of Zug re-
calls in many respects the phenomena of
South American earthquakes. For several
days crevices had been observed in the
new quay at Zug, which cost $4,000, and
at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon the lake in front
of the stone work began to bubble, the
quay cracked and eighty feet of it fell A
dozen persons who rushed from an adjoin-
ing cafe were precipitated into the water
and drowned. After a short inter-
val another slip dragged several
houses into the water, the landing stage
followed and a steamer which had just
arrived was hurled hundred yards for
ward. At four O'Clock two boats going to
the rescue were engulfed, only one boat
man rising again to the surface. AT the
same moment a boatman's hut, in which
were three children, fell into the water.
Furniture and cattle were hurriedly re-
moved from the threatened quarter, and at
seven o'clock the land slips began again
and several carts removing property sank
into the lake, while fifteen houses and ten
huts disappeared within few minutes, in
cluding the Hotel Zurich, the roof of which
is still visible above the surface of the lake.
A cafe in which were ten customers was next
engulfed, and $50 meters OF a neighboring
street then vanished. the people jumping
from the windows of houses to escape be-
ing drowned. A party of officers returning
from Lucerne assisted the fire brigade in
rescuing imperlled persons, but as the dan
ger increased troops were summoned. A
third landslip occurred at eleven p. m,
carrying five houses into the lake and dam
aging many others. The municipal treasury
was removed from the town hall to the post
Office Seventy persons are missing and
600 homeless. The damage is estimated at
$25OOOO. People are pouring into zug from
all points to view the scene.
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ADvICEs from Cabui say that the Ameer,
suspecting the fidelity Of the Jamshedies,
near Herat, owing TO the visits of a Russian
emissary, has imprisoned the Khan and
threatened TO execute him unless his tribe
send 70 Cabul some of their chiefs as hos
tsges.
BELGIAN import duties have been estab-
lished as follows: On bulls and bullocks, 4
francs per kilogram; for oxen and calves,
francs 3 centmes per kilogram; on sheep,
2IS francs, and on lambs, l franc per head
on fresh meat, entire or half carcasses, ff-
teen centimes, and on other kinds Of meat
and game, 80 centimes per kilOgram..
FIVE hundred Orleanists, including many
titled persons, paid visits to the Count
Of Paris on Jersey island the other day.
The Count deprecated the demonstration
and when a number Of the visitors crowded
around him shouting ''Vive le ROi" he or
dered them TO desist.
TINS Portuguese Ministry has proposed tc
Parliament that the buildings on the right
bank Of the Tagus be declared free port
and that stores for shipping. landing and
bonding all goods not destined for home
consumption be exempt from all hsca
charges.
THE British ship Muskota, it is feared,
has been lost at sea with all on board. She
left Sorabia, Java, December Is, and called
at Hanjoeuanjie on New Years day. HeI
destination was Queenstown. The crew
belonged principally 20 New York.
TIE new French budget as prepared by
NJ. Rouvier Premier and Minister Of ri
nance, win show saving of l5,Oo0 O0s
francs. as com pared with the last one
THE Bulgarian Cab. -set has resigned be
cause OF disputes between the Minis srs
and the Regents.
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CHEEREp BY VETS.
The President Cordially Greeted by q MI
sachusetts Post.

The President Cordially Greeted by q Mas
sachusetts Post.
WASHINGTON, July S.-General Landes
Post No. of the G. A. R., of Lynn, Mass,
which arrived here Wednesday night from
Virginia, called on the President last even
ing, and were received in the east room.
When the President came down stairs to
receive them, Post Commander Walker
stepped forward and said: Comrades Of
General Landes Post No 5, propose three
cheers for Grover Clevel and, President of
the United States.'' The veterans gave the
cheers and tiger with vigor and earnest
ness that made the air ring.
When it's echoes had died away the Pres
ident with a smile addressed the visitors as
follows: II can only say to you. gentlemen,
that am glad to meet you here. ! have ex-
tended to you this courtesy as I have lately,
with much pleasure, to the other posts Of
the g. A. r.. on their way home from visits
to their Southern friends. 1 want you to
understand that I have lost no conf
dence in the G.. A. r. as an organi-
zatIon, notwithstanding recent occur
rences to which it is 1 OF necessary further
to allude. 1t is incomprehensib bic to me
that men who have risked their lives to
save the Government should abate one jot
or little of the respect and support which
every good citizen owes to the Government
and constituted authorities ] greet you
then as citizens as well as veterans, and
shall be pleased to take you ali by the
hand"
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THE LATEST.

TIE work of the Bureau of Pensions for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1897, makes
a remarkable showing. The total number
OF pension certificates of all kinds issued
was 112, $40, of which 81, 1914 were original
allowances.
THE National Rubber Works, Bristol, R..
l., on account Of the large amount Of man
ufactured goods on hand, has suspended
work for an indefinite period.
THREE colored children were burned to
death near Tchula, Miss, on the 9th. Their
parents went to church, leaving four chill
dren in the house. The eldest, aged ten
years, set a lighted lamp near bed, which
caught fire, and three of the children were
burned to death.
THERE were five new cases of yellow
fever reported at Key West, Fla, on the
10th. The record to that date was: Total
cases, SO; deaths, p; sick at present, 93;
discharged cured, %.
JAMES G. BLAINE made a speech at
Edinburg, Scotland, on the 10th, the occa-
sion being the laying of the cornerstone
of the new library building.
THE Egyptian cotton report shows the
plant is generally strong and in good con
dition.
WHILE all nationalities were represent
ed in the successful revolt in Honolulu
made against King Kalakaua, Americans
were predominant, assisted by the English,
French and Portuguese residents.
Discomfort is spreading smong the
Knights of Labor, iron and steel workers
throughout the country. They are inaig-
nant at the general officers of the order
because they have not been granted a
National Trades Assembly, and already
several assem- lies threaten to withdraw
from the order unless a charter is granted
A COMPANY was organized at Clarksville
Tenn, on the 9th for the purpose of horing
for natural gas. Prof. Lyon, who has
been making extensive Investigations, saws
he is sure gas viii be found within 100 feet
OF the surface.
A SENSATION was caused a. FL Paso
Tex, by Sheriff James H. White publicly
Gaming f. r. Fox, prominent stor-
mason aud contractor. The Gaming wa
the sheriff's reply to a challenge whci
Fox sent him &c fight a duel in Mexico.
TIE Supreme Court Of Arkansas on IL.
9th affirmed the constitutinnality an.
validity of the act of the last Legislatur,
reducing railrc al passenger fares la thr,'
cents per mile, which was resisted ~ ths
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad Cotn
pany on the ground OF a defect ia the 10
rollment Of the bin.
SLIGHT earthquake tremoFs were -
different POINTS in South Caroiiaa "a O.
10th.
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Thh WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NorEs.

FRED DOUGLASS, who has been making
quite an extensive tour 70 Europe. Is ex
pected to return to Washington in Septeln-
Der, and the colored people arc making ar
rangements to welcome him home with
public reception.
COMMANDER LEARY reports the man-of-
war Iroquois rotten and unfit for sea. The
vessel is a third-rate and built of wood.
She has been ordered TO Mare Island.
THE Secretary of the Interior has rem
dered decision that teamsters and others
not actually at the seat Of war with Mexico
are not entitled to benefits under the
Bounty Land act.
LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS, in answer
TO a communication from a settler suffering
from drouth, says be would be willing 70
OK tend the benefits Of the grasshopper
clause OF the Land act in cases Of drouth.
THE Treasury Department has decided
that an American vessel which arrived at
New York with cargo OF fish, caught on
the coast Of Newfoundland, is exempt from
the continued supervision of custom officers
on the ground that she did not clear from a
foreign port and because her cargo was
free Of duty.
THE Government receipts for the first
week Of July were S10,0S9 SOB less than the
expenditures.
THE list Of the contributors to the Gar
field campaign fund of 1880 from the Patent
ONCE, as unearthed in the late Disbursing
Clerk Bacon's papers, was made public on
the 9TH, but only one clerk from Missouri
and not a single one from Kansas was
down on the list
oscar J. HARVEY, late an emplOye of the
Treasury Department, has been arrested
charged with defrauding the Government
His defalcatlons were thought to be about
g50OOO
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HoN. DUNCAN Il FENNER, president Of
the Louisiana Jockey Club, president Of
the Sugar Planters Association, and iden-
titled with many enterprises in Louisiana,
died suddenly at New Orleans on the 3D.
Mr.. Kenner was formerly a member of
Congress and Confederate Commissioner
TO France, and also one of the Tariff Com
missioners appointed by President Arthur.
THE old National Thcater at New Orleans,
known as Werlein Hall, was destroyed by
fire recently.
SAM JONES instituted a new departure
the other evening at Baltimore by charging
a hfty-cent admission to his evangelical
meetings.
THE citizens of Helena, Ark, have sub
scribed $50, 900 to be used in conjunction
with S15, 600 allowed by the Mississippi
Commission for the protection of the levees
along the river front at that place.
THE first deadly encounter over the pro
hibition issue, now convulsing all sections
of Texas, occurred recently at Sunset.
John Glass, a PrOhibiuonist, shot and
killed Sam Trammel, an anti. They quar-
relied over the canvass and made friends.
Later on they met with the above result.
b. f. REEDER, miller of Danville, KY,
was bitten ON the nose by a rat day or
two ago. He lies in critical condition,
erysipelas having set in.
Thomas A. CARTER, of Ozark, Ark, has
been appointed appraiser of the right OF
way of the Kansas q Arkansas railway
through the Indian Territory.
TEN new cases of and three deaths from
yellow fever were reported at Key West,
Fla, on the 9TH.
IN 1873. while J. Samp Swift was sheriff
of Galloway County, KY, his accounts were
| SO, 600 short. He thought a deputy had
robbed him. In making good the deficiency
it bankrupted him, and he has siuce sup
ported his family as day laborer. Re
/ Gently his wife was sent to an insane
/ asylum, and IN her rawlings told of money
/ hid IN the smoke house. Investigation re
| vealed So, 200 in green backs. 1t is thought
| she concealed the money in one of her at
/ taclSs
I ADvICEs from Jonesboro, Ark, say that
a man got of the west bound train at thai
/ place, and, walking up to a small crowd Of
| people, drew revolver and fired three
shots, killing one man aud fatally wound
ing another The mau was believed to be
an escaped lunatic.
GANG of eight men recently attempted
to rob the through Kansas express on the
Santa Fe near PendletOn, Tex. A posse OF
board opened fire and one Of the robbers
fell. He was carried of by hls companions
| who escaped.
WILLIAM Bowen and Miss Eunice Kin
ney, of Palestine, Tex, were struck by
| lightning while under a tree the other even
ing and both killed.
| THE old National Theater at New Orleans
| was burned some days ago. Recently sOm
men were engaged IN removing the debris
| when windstorm blew down one of th
walls, injuring nine Of the men, three
/ probably fatally.
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HOW MOsoUlTOEs BITE.

The Long, Slender and Ever Active Pro-
boscis Of the BIOOdthirsty Insect.
While people think they are familiar
with the mosquito, they in fact know
next to nothing about it. The word
mosquito is Spanish and Portuguese
word. and is probably the diminutive
of the Spanish mosca fly. The mos
quito belongs to the order of diptera or
two-winged flies, and to the family Of
culicide. From the high degree of de-
velopment of its mouth parts it has
been placed at the head Of the diptera.
The principal characteristic is its long
and slender proboscis, nearly half as
long as the insect, appearing as a sim
pie organ, but really composed Of sew
eral pieces peculiarly fitted for boring
their way into the flesh and drawing
the blood therefrom. There are a
number of separate and distinct species.
They may come in winter as well as In
summer, but their visits then, happily,
are rare. Though numerous in indivi-
duals they are not numerous in species.
There are 158 species. one-quarter Of
which are North American.
The proboscis Of the mosquito, when
in its normal condition, seems but a
single piece, but upon dissection is
found to consist of seven distinct
pieces, one of which is double. The
operation Of inserting the proboscis in
to the flesh, the professor said, was an
interesting operation 10 witness. The
mosquito, besides furnishing food for
fishes, serves to purify standing water
and lessen malarial influences. They
have organism so contracted that they
are almost without consciousness Of
pain, and could eat themselves up, like
the dragon fly. If their bodies could be
brought in contact with their mouths
Baptist Weekly.
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THE Judge Of the United States Circuit
Court at Portland, Ore, has authorized a
receiver to charge more for a short than
for q long haul.
THE American party closed three days
secret session at San Francisco on the 9th.
The platform declared against various
s'isms," theories and practices supposed to
be inlmical to what are thought to be na-
tive interests.
THE gasoline stOve-worxers Of America
met in annual convention in Cleveland, o.,
on the 9th.
OVER 600 music teachers attended the
national conventions meetings at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 9th.
A NUMBER of murdered bodies Of China
men have been floating down the Snake
river in Idaho lately. 1t was generally
thought they had been robbed and murdered
by white men, though some thought it was
the work of Indians
WORMS are destroying the cranberry
vines in and about Berlin, Wis, and it is
feared that the vines will be entirely ruined.
THE Pacific Investigating Committee un-
earthed some sensational facts at Leaven-
worth on the 9th, the principal being list
Of prominent persons bribed IN the early
/ days OF the Union Pacific.
DIR. NORTH, the physician in charge Of the
/ Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific Railway Hos
| pital at Peru, Ind, was shot and fatally
/ wounded recently by John ChristiansOn
/ The man was beating his daughter at the
time, when North attempted to stop his
4 brutality, with the above result. The shoot
ing incensed the people, who took Christian
/ son out of Jail and hanged him to bridge
THE Utah constitutional convention com
/ pleted and adopted its constitution on thu
| 9TH. The planks regarding bigamy and po
| Iygamy, representation for minority anC
| separation of Church and State were adopt
ed with others. The vote Of the people vii
be taken in August.
THE President, in a letter to Mayo
| Francis, of st. Louis, says that he will b
unable to visit that city during the GRAM
| Army encampment next fall. His reasons
| briefly expressed, are that his presenc
might lead to discord and cause feeling
retarding the fraternal sentiments at pres
ent increasing between the North and tn
South.
EIGHT Italians were drowned in the StuI
geOn river mines at Metropolitan, Mich, o.
the 9TH, the river breaking into the works
PERHAM, Mimi, reports the country aliv
with grasshoppers and every thing bein
eaten up.
ENGINEER JOHN SooTT and Firema
James Hucl1lsh were fatally injured by tn
explosion Of a boiler in the Excelsior min
at Oskaloosa, Iowa, the other day. TIL
cause of the explosion was unknown.
THE Chronicle, Of San Francisco, recent
published two pages of letters and afidi
Wits accusing h. F. Beecher, son of the lat
Henry Ward Beecher, of extensive fraud
on the Government while acting as colectC
of the port of Townsend, w. T. Their
were also sensational charges of Beeche
being concerned in the murder of A. I
Blake to prevent the latter dlvulgIn
/ Beecher's dishonesty.
! Ben HOLIDAY, the famous pony expires
and overland stage man, died at Portland
Ore on the Sth from paralysis.
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A Desperate Fight.

GORDON, Ind, July News has just
been received here OF a terrible fight which
occurred at Marengo, Crawford County,
Sunday night, between a band of "W hite
Caps" (regulators), and two brothers
named Naushee. The white Caps called
upon John Naushee for the purpose Of
whipping him. John and his brother, Sher-
man. were awaiting their arrival and with
wagon spokes attacked the regulators. In
the fight that ensued Sherman Naushee
was, probably, fatally shot and John was
beaten with clubs until he was left for
dead The Naushees were powerful men
and it is said that several s'White Caps
were wounded and killed.
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oELLuLoIp DISASTER.
An Explosion of Gun Cotton Causes Tw
Terrible Deaths.

An Explosion of Gun Cotton Causes Two
Terrible Deaths.
ARLINGTON, N. j., July S.-Six of nine
one-story brick buildings, covering an en-
tire square, occupied by the celluloId manu-
factory, were demolished by an explosion
yesterday and two persons were killed and
several others wounded. The company
makes collars, cuffs, knife-handles and
other articles from celluloid. The explo-
sion was caused by the careless handling of
gun cotton by one of the employees,
August Hulangrem. His body was
torn in pieces and thrown into neighbor-
ing field. The other victim was Miss A. 7.
Muchmore, another empIoye. She was
pinned down by the debris of the demol-
ished buildings and burned to crisp by
the fire which followed the explosion.
Probably a dozen other employees were
more or less injured, but none fatally. The
works were in the middle of the village,
and there is scarcely whole pane of glass
within a quarter of mile and many houses
are otherwise damaged. The loss is $4,000
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NEW YoRK, July Nearly 800 building
materials cartmen of the West Side of this
city struck yesterday morning, and unless
they soon return to work building opera
tions viii be suspended. The men. who
furnish their horses and wagons or carts,
were heretofore paid by the load or day,
and a man with a horse and cart
could make s. a day, and if he had
team and wagon 81. The dealers insisted
On the cartmen Humping or contracting
for the Job, and the men found they had
more work TO do for less money than under
the old system, and then cited up" The
cartmen's strike extends from the Battery
70 Kings bridge. II affects dealers N
hricz. eamant and IaEh.
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A Fitting Tribute.

"Sir," said Colonel Biffkins to a book
agent who had called on him repeat
edly. II do not care To buy one Of your
books because / don't want it. have
no curiosity to read it, and do not care
to have itin the way But dofeel dis
posed 70 have q statue erected in your
honor
''Indeedl feel gratitied.
Yes, sir i do feel much inclined
that way A nice. big, life-si1e brass
statue Merchant TraUcter.
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CONSIDERATION.
1metimes snch a little thine

o, sometimes such little thing
Can hope and cheer impart,
To one grown tired, and healing bring
Unto wounded heart.
A kindly smile, a pleasant word,
Which we can always give,
Perhaps some weary soul has stirred
With strength to love and live.
Something we did unheedingly
Has helped one on his way;
The song we sing so carelessly
May light some dreary day.
These little things seem naught; but 0,
Be generous Of such, brothers,
And feel the JOY which angels know,
In giving joy to others.
Infer (lee1r
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THE WEST.

MCMuNN. the desperate and pal Of
"Blinkyn Morgan. has been captured az
North Lansing, Mich.
THOMAS 5. BALDWIN dropped from bal
loon, hClding parachute, at Quincy, III,
on the 4th. He reached the ground in
safety.
THE Union Labor party Of Ohio has nom
mated the following ticket: Governor,
John Dietz, Of Tifin; Lieutenant-Governor,
r. NJ. Mcdonald, Of Springfield, supreme
Judge, long term, Tim O'Conner, Of Cincin-
nat; short term. Granville y. Tuttle' Of
Painesville. Auditor, o. J. Sutter, OF
Akron; Treasurer. r. p. Harter' OF Ali
Rnce; Attornev-G eneral, William Baker, oi
Newark; member OF public works, Carl a.
Reader, Of Cleveland.
NAHDfzAz, the Apache who was found
guilty Of murder in the first degree Of the
killing OF Lieutenant Mott, az San Carlos,
March ~, and sentenced 20 Imprisonment
for life, heR been sent to the prison at Chcs-
tor III
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Eight Italians Drowned in a Michigan Mine
I,r the E2ixar EreaLzinn- Thrnngh.

MARQUETTE, Mich, July S.-Last evening
in the Sturgeon river mine at Metropolitan
a number of men had just got a blast ready
when the water rushed IN fast that
many could not escape. Eight Italians are
known to be in the mine, and are surely
dead. It will be impossible to recover the
bodies for some hours, although the work
will be pushed. The names of the victims
can not be learned.
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"A wedding ring, first worn in 1549,
came into the possession Of the grand
daughter Of the original possessor, n
Rochester. Pa, girl. and she lost it.
Now. after six years, il has been found
in garden which had been regularly
worked every year.
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CLEVELAND AND THE WEST.

Report That He VIII Not Come West This
Louis.
WASHINGTON, July Sit is practically
settled that the President will not visit the
West at all during the present year. The
abandonment of his proposed visit to St.
Louis has resulted in wholly changing
whatever plans he had made for visiting
Western cities. 1t is stated at the White
House that the only plans the
President has made for leaving Wash
ington during the summer and autumn are
those for his visit to Clinton, n. V, on the
18th instant, which will probably not con-
sumo altogether more than a weeks time,
and for his visit to Atlanta, Ga, in October
next, on the occasion Of the Georgia State
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ANOTHER INVITATION.

ST. LOUIS, July 8.-A meeting of the COM
mittee that invited President Cleveland to
be present at the G. A. R. encampment was
held at the mayors Office yesterday after
noon. It was resolved to sever all connec-
tion with the g. A. R., and the committee
was dissolved. A committee of five was
appointed to take suitable action in the
matter. The committee met last evening
and decided to call mass meeting, which
will be held on 'Change to-day, when reso-
lutions will be presented. inviting the Pres
ident to be present during the fair and ex-